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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Triple conjunction Mars






2. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






3. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






4. Triple conjunction Mars






5. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






6. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






7. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






8. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






9. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






10. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






11. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






12. Transit of Mercury.






13. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






14. Transit of Venus on June 11.






15. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






16. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






17. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






18. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






19. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






20. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






21. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






22. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






23. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






24. Triple conjunction Mars






25. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






26. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






27. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






28. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






29. March 17






30. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






31. Triple conjunction Mars






32. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






33. Transit of Mercury.






34. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






35. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






36. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






37. Triple conjunction Mars






38. Transit of Venus on June 9.






39. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






40. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






41. Triple conjunction Mars






42. December 10






43. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






44. Triple conjunction Mars






45. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






46. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






47. Triple conjunction Mars






48. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






49. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






50. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.